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    • 1A Introducing Design for Behavior Change
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Author: Jennifer Quach

SnapEdit (Team 13) Assumption Testing – Part 2 w/ Prototypes

December 6, 2025

SnapEdit (Team 13) Assumption Testing – Part 2 w/ Prototypes Testing Process As a team of two, we split up to test each of…

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SnapEdit Assumption Test Card Design Part 1 – Team 13

December 6, 2025

SnapEdit Assumption Test Card Design – Team 13 Assumption selection criteria   When it comes to how we identify our riskiest assumptions, we had two…

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BUSINESS: Should We Deploy a Gen AI Salesbot?

December 5, 2025

Should we deploy a GenAI salesbot? Considerations for the decision Jeannie persistently pushes the need to be “transformative” to warrant her stance on deploying…

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Product Sense Pushups: Personalization Strategies — Customization vs. Automation

December 5, 2025

How do different platforms use personalization in their business strategy?  Spotify (Personalization for maximizing listening time) Spotify’s signature personalization features not only contribute to…

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CASE STUDY: Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up (Internship Ethics)

December 5, 2025

Follow Dubious Orders or Speak Up?  Speaking up vs. Cooperating Susan’s experiences had several layers of additional tension added to the dubious tasks that…

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Product Sense Pushups: Crisis Management — Error States and Recovery

December 2, 2025

Cross-platform comparisons of error handling and recovery flows Slack (workplace retention) Errors in Slack can be bucketed into authentication errors (ie. SSO failures), sync/messaging…

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Product Sense Pushups: Subscription Decisions — Paywall and Upgrade Flows

December 2, 2025

Cross-company comparison of freemium conversion strategies Spotify (premium conversion) Spotify makes its free-to-paid path clear by keeping friction to the listening experience – ads,…

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Product Sense Pushups: Discovery Patterns — Search and Browse

November 17, 2025

How different platforms help users discover content Netflix (Recommendation-heavy discovery)  Netflix provides users with a personalized viewing experience through its infamous recommendation algorithm, analyzing…

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Product Sense Pushups: Purchase Intent — E-commerce Checkout

November 17, 2025

Checkout flow designs per company Amazon (Speed-optimized checkout) Amazon’s checkout experience captures the speed of which the company prides itself on for its customers…

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Product Sense Pushups: Onboarding

November 16, 2025

Product Onboarding Comparisons across Verticals We compared onboarding for three apps across various verticals: social (Instagram), productivity (Notion), finance (Venmo), identifying what information each…

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